Recently elected to the Académie française, Dany Laferrière is a Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. The Postcolonialist editor Pénélope Cormier interviewed him on October 10, 2013, just before his candidacy was announced. An English translation of the interview[...]

In cultural, literary and postcolonial studies, hybridity, syncretism, creolization, métissage have become common tropes. (…) if everything is hybrid, what does hybridity mean? Hence the next question to come up[...]